Arterial wall stiffness can be associated with various diseases. Arteriosclerosis involves the buildup of plaques within artery walls that stiffen the arteries. The stiffness of an artery can be assessed by measurement of the pulse wave velocity (PWV). Usually, PWV is estimated using the foot-to-foot method. However, the foot of the pressure wave is not very clear due to reflected waves. Also, the blood pressure wave generated by the heart is normally a low frequency wave, hence the time resolution is low. PWV is an average indicator of artery stiffness between the two measuring positions, and therefore cannot easily identify local stiffness. In this paper a force on the arterial wall is generated noninvasively by the radiation force of ultrasound. Techniques for measuring the propagating wave due to this localized force are studied. The excitation force can be either a very short pulse or a modulated cw signal of a few hundred hertz. The temporal resolution of this method, which is in the range of microseconds, is much higher than the conventional pressure PWV method, and therefore allows the wave velocity to be measured accurately over short distances of a few millimeters. 相似文献
Ethynylated phenothiazine based fluorescent boronic acid probes were prepared. Sonogashira coupling reaction was used to introduce
substituted phenylethynylene fragments to the phenothiazine fluorophore to extend the π-conjugation and to enhance the emission
property. The photophysical properties and the binding properties of these probes with hydroxyl acids were investigated. We
found that the probes with significant ICT effect show emissions which are sensitive to solvent polarity. The phenothiazine
moiety is proved to be electron-donating. We found the substitution profile imparts significant effect on the photophysical
properties of the probes. For example, one of the probes shows d-PeT effect, whereas the regioisomer probe with similar π-conjugation
fragment but different substitution profile shows the a-PeT effect. The easy derivatization of phenothiazine fluorophore,
the structure-photophysical property relation and the novel d-PeT fluorescence transduction profile of the phenothiazine based
probes described herein may inspire more investigation into this fascinating research area. 相似文献
AlF3-coating is attempted to improve the performance of LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. The prepared powders are characterized by scanning electron microscope, powder X-ray
diffraction, charge/discharge, and impedance. The coated LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 samples show higher discharge capacity, better rate capability, and higher capacity retention than the uncoated samples.
Among the coated samples, 1.0 mol% AlF3-coated sample shows highest capacity after charge–discharged at 30 mA/g for 3 cycles, but 4.0 mol% coated sample exhibits
the highest capacity and cycling stability when cycled at high rate of 150 and 300 mA/g. The 40th cycle discharge capacity
at 300 mA/g current still remains 114.8 mAh/g for 4.0 mol% AlF3-coated LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4, while only 84.3 mAh/g for the uncoated sample. 相似文献
A transmission line model for subwavelength metallic grating with single cut is presented. The model is based on analogy between the subwavelength metallic structure and the microwave transmission line theory. The analytical expression for the transmission is derived by the transfer matrix method. To confirm our model, the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method simulations are carried out. The influences of the position of the cuts on the higher modes of slit are presented. It is found that the transmission line model gives analytical prediction about the evolution of the transmission spectra. 相似文献
Single-crystal erbium silicate nanowires have attracted considerable attention because of their high optical gain. In this work, we report the controlled synthesis of silicon-erbium ytterbium silicate core-shell nanowires and fine-tuning the erbium mole fraction in the shell from x = 0:3 to x = 1:0, which corresponds to changing the erbium concentration from 4:8 × 1021 to 1:6 × 1022 cm-3. By controlling and properly optimizing the composition of erbium and ytterbium in the nanowires, we can effectively suppress upconversion photoluminescence while simultaneously enhancing near-infrared emission. The composition-optimized nanowires have very long photoluminescence lifetimes and large emission cross-sections, which contribute to the high optical gain that we observed. We suspended these concentration-optimized nanowires in the air to measure and analyze their propagation loss and optical gain in the near-infrared communication band. Through systematic measurements using wires with different core sizes, we obtained a maximum net gain of 20±8 dB·mm-1, which occurs at a wavelength of 1534 nm, for a nanowire with a diameter of 600 nm and a silicon core diameter of 300 nm.
Layered lithium-rich oxide, 0.5Li2MnO3·0.5LiMn1/3Ni1/3Co1/3O2, is synthesized in a mixed molten salt of KCl and LiCl under 750 °C. Its morphology and structure are characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and nitrogen adsorption and desorption isotherm, and its performances as cathode of lithium-ion battery are investigated by charge–discharge test and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, with a comparison of the samples synthesized via solid-state reaction. It is found that the resulting product consists of uniform nanoparticles, 50 nm in average, which possesses a well crystallite layered structure although its synthesis temperature is low and thus exhibits excellent cyclic stability and rate capability. The resulting product delivers an initial discharge capacity of 268 mAh g?1 at 0.1 C and has a capacity retention of 82% after 100 cycles at 1 C, compared to the 243 mAh g?1 and 73% for the sample synthesized by solid-state reaction under 900 °C. 相似文献
The dependence of the phase matching (PM) angle on temperature in type-I second harmonic generation (SHG) and type-II third harmonic generation (THG) of KDP is experimentally investigated. The experimental results show that as the crystal temperatures vary by 1 °C, the external PM angles of the KDP doubler and tripler change 100 μrad and 220 μrad, respectively. The PM angle of KDP tripler is more sensitive to temperature variation than is that of the KDP doubler. Comparing the numerical calculations and the previous reports, a discrepancy has been found among the different reported results. Based on the analytical solution of the temperature dependence of the SHG process it is shown that a small error in the thermo-optic coefficients of the crystal is the main factor source of the discrepancy. 相似文献